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The CMB in exact inhomogeneous cosmologies

Stokes, Lee Ashley 2014. The CMB in exact inhomogeneous cosmologies. MPhil Thesis, Cardiff University.
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Abstract

In the past, the standard method of analysing temperature and polarization anisotropies imprinted into the Cosmic Microwave Background by large-scale structure was to use approximate perturbative techniques applied to a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker model. Instead, this thesis researches models based on exact inhomogeneous solutions of the Einstein field equations, such as the Lematre-Tolman (spherically symmetric with dust source) and Szekeres models (non-symmetric), to see whether there might be effects arising from large inhomogeneities that are missed in the standard approach. 1

Item Type: Thesis (MPhil)
Status: Unpublished
Schools: Physics and Astronomy
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy
Uncontrolled Keywords: Delayed Big Bang model, Swiss-cheese models, Horizon problem, Szekeres solution, Light propagation, Double structures and the Rees-Sciama effect
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 30 March 2016
Last Modified: 19 Mar 2016 23:40
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/60521

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